Bagpipes Cryin - Rushlow Harris

TANAKA (Tanaka) Shokhei (May 1862, Avadzishima - 16 X 1945, Chiba, near Tokyo) - Japan. musesacoustic. He graduated from the physicist. Faculty of Tokyo Imp. University (1882). He studied the acoustics at hand. G. Helmholtz in Berlin (since 1884), where in 1890 he defended his diss. "Research in the field of clean systems." On the basis of his system, in 1889 he designed a harmony with a clean system, which G. von Bülow called the “anharmonium”, in 1893 - an organ with a clean system (built by the Walker company; not preserved), which had 20 keys in an octave and 36 pipes. In these instruments, T. strove to simplify the technique of execution. However practical. they have not received application. Returning to Tokyo, T. founded the Institute for the Study of Japan there in 1899. music. In 1930 resumed exploration in the field of clean systems decomp. musestools. He was president of N.-i. Institute of electricity named after Tanaki and director of Japan. musessociety. In the last years of his life, he worked in Chiba.